Presentation on NPCs and language learning in Second Life

1. Presented by …… Scott Grant, Chinese Studies Program The role of non-player characters (bots) in task-based language and culture learning

2. What are chat bots? virtual agents, interactive virtual agents (IVA), brand agents, branded agents, virtual assistants, artificial conversational entities, virtual employees, conversational agents, embodied conversational agents (ECA), chatterbots, conversational systems, chatterbox, virtual chat agents, or chat bots

3. What are chat bots? A chatbot (or chatterbot, or chat bot) is a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods. Traditionally, the aim of such simulation has been to fool the user into thinking that the program's output has been produced by a human (the Turing test). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatterbot

4. What are chat bots? An artificial living entity designed to have conversations with real human beings. That can be a text conversation via computers, a spoken conversation or even a non-verbal conversation. http://www.chatbots.org/chatbot/

22. Chinese Island (secondlife://Monash%20University%202/200/170/26)